Join Amy Ploeckelman Mosbey and me for an afternoon of art intertwined with yoga. Through the flow and rhythmic movements of yoga led by Amy and the creative artful prompts led my by me, you will create a large piece of unique artwork personalized with mark-making all your own. This class is open to both new and experienced artists. All levels of yoga students welcome. All supplies included.

I've been practicing yoga for over six years now, and have taken classes with Amy for a couple years, she is an amazing instructor. Together we will inspire you to work your body and mind while exploring your creativity. To reserve your space in class, call The Studio at 925.838.9200.

Happy Summer creative lovelies! To celebrate the beginning of the season, I'm offering a HUGE discount on all of my self guidedmixed media e-courses. The summer is a great time to spend time working on your art and my e-courses are perfect to keep you inspired throughout the upcoming months, even while you are on vacation. be inspired...choose from painting, collage, art journaling, digital art journaling, doodling and book-binding workshops!

SAVE 40% on any of the mixed media e-courses for a limited time! All the e-courses are self-guided, unlimited access to the private classroom and art community, accessible 24/7 to work at your own
pace. All videos and PDF workbooks can be viewed on most smart phones
and tablets connected to the internet...perfect to take on the go!

To take advantage of the sale price, head on over to my digital shoppe and place the mixed media e-courses in your cart. You will be prompted to checkout via Paypal, enter your info {you won't be charged yet}, then you will be taken back to the shopping cart where you can enter the coupon code: summer40sale and then complete the checkout process. A 40% discount will be take off MIXED MEDIA e-courses only. Please allow 48 hours to receive the e-course classroom invite. {note: this offer is not available for my creative business e-courses, studio workshops or other digital or physical products}

A couple of weekends ago, I had the pleasure of hosting a Graffiti Canvas PLAY party at the grand opening of JoAnn Fabric and Craft Store in Summerville, SC. It was a great day full inspiration, where I shared fabric painting techniques using my fave ILoveTo Create products.

Join me for the next play party & book signing in Fresno, CA this weekend!

Last week I shared a two video tutorials {here and here}
with numerous ideas of how I create mixed media + dyed fabrics for my
art journals and other projects. Once you have all of those beautiful
fabrics in your stash, how do you creatively store or display them?

Here
are some colorful and inspirational ideas for display and storage....

CURTAIN cable: Use a cable system, usually used for curtains {see photo above} add rings with clips and hooks and a closet hanger
to hang items from the cable. Both of these can be found out Ikea. This
is a great system for hanging larger pieces of painted canvases.

BINDERS + plastic sleeves: Group fabrics by color or for certain projects and place them into top loading plastic sheet protectors then into a large binder{2.5" or 3"} since the fabrics. This organization method allows me to easier flip through various fabrics in an organized fashion. To prevent fabric from sliding out of the plastic sleeve pin the top closed with a quilting pin.

BINDER clips: For projects I might be working on soon, I group fabrics and special pieces and clip them together using a binder clip and hang them on my studio inspiration wall.

CROCHET hangers: Use the top loading binder sheet protectors or clear plastic bags filled with *flair trays including painted fabric swatches to decorate your studio or walls. This is a great way to create color studies or put together embellishment kits for your projects. I love and collect vintage crochet hangers, I attach clips and clothes pins to hang the

CLIPBOARDS: I have a few legal size clipboards on my wall that hold my fabric project collections. It's a fun way to rotate your fabric collections on your inspiration wall.

DESIGN wall foam core: another great way to experiment and see fabric for a project is to create a design board with a large piece of foam core. Use quilting pins to tack the fabric to the board. This works great and allows you to move pieces around.

I hope these ideas inspire you to find creative ways to display all of your lovely creations. I'd love to see how you store or display your fabrics. If you a link to a photo online, please share it in the comments. happy organizing! xoxo~Traci

Yesterday I shared various fabric painting ideas and gave an overview of how to use the Tulip Tie-Dye Kit in this video tutorial. Today continues with more ideas for over dyeing fabric and I reveal all the colorful fabrics I created during this painting session.

Here's part two in the video series, it's about 30 minutes. You can find the supply list, step-by-step directions, more photos and tips in the previous post...enjoy the inspiration!

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STAY TUNED...for the final post in this series that reveals more ideas and inspiration on how to use the fabrics for color palettes, how I store them, and information on how I use the painted & dyed fabrics to create art quilts and art journals. I'll also share a simple DIY sketchbook planner project.

Today I continue my Style reMIX blog series featuring Tulip Tye-Dye Kits. Tie Dye is all the rage in fashion trends this season as I shared in this post. I want give you insight in how I use these colorful tie-dye kits from ILoveTo Create for other things than t-shirts and pre-made tote bags. It's a fun technique and a great way to use up all the fabric scraps and painted remnants sitting in your studio.

I've created a two part video series that explores various ideas on how to mix custom colors using the dyes, ideas for resists and demonstrations on how to over dye hand painted textiles. Tulip Tye-Dye Kits and One Step Dyes are super easy to use and produce vibrant colorful fabrics.

{creative toolbox} here are the supplies you'll need to complete this project...

FABRIC TO DYE: I start with remnants of my mixed media painted fabrics and pieces of cotton fabrics and fibers/yarns. The pieces above are a mixture of cotton fabrics including muslin, drill cloth and canvas that have been painted with Tulip Soft Fabric Paints, Tulip Slick Dimensional paints and Tulip Fabric Sprays. They can be dyed with or without washing first. If you don't wash the fabric, the final dyed color will not be as vibrant.

MIX COLORS: mix custom colors in Ziploc plastic bags. Then place fabric piecs in the bags and soak them with the dye mixture. Place dyed fabrics with similar colors in ziploc bags and let set for 6-8 hours of longer for deeper/richer colors. Experiment with color mixing. I don't have exact recipies I just experiment and play. Test color with small pieces of fabric and add more dye colors to make changes to the color mixture.

RINSE & WASH FABRIC: Follow the directions on the package to rinse and wash the dye out of fabric. I like to iron my dried pieces to keep them flat.

tips + ideas

for more vibrant colors pre-wash and dry fabric.

wetting fabric before dyeing is optional. If fabric is saturated with water first, the dye color will be lighter, it also helps blend colors together or create gradations of one color.

Here's a video tutorial which gives an overview and ideas of fabrics painting & resist techniques, techniques on mixing custom colors and how to over dyed painted textiles. It's almost 40 minutes and jam-packed with info...enjoy the inspiration!

Come back tomorrow for part two in the mixed media + fabric dyeing series, I'll show a few more color mixing and over dyeing ideas, a BIG reveal of the colorful finished pieces and ideas for using the dyed fabrics. Happy tie dyeing...xo~Traci

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